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Financing Constraints Hamper Leviathan Development
...a the EMG pipeline are exposed to the risk of insurgent attack. The subsea pipeline runs from Ashkelon in Israel to Arish in Egypt, which is connected by an onshore pipeline to the west of the country. The infrastructure was used to pipe Egyptian gas to Israel. In the aftermath of the 2011 re...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Bahrain Refinery Revamp To Boost Heavy Oil Upgrading
...mpletion in 2019 (MEES, 19 September). More Modest The current plan is more modest than an earlier incarnation, which envisaged Sitra capacity being expanded to 450,000 b/d. CLG completed a FEED study for this scenario in 2011. Around 45,000 b/d of the crude currently processed at Sitra comes fr...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Neutral Zone: Saudi Arabia Steamrolls Kuwait, Cuts Oil Output
...udi Arabian oil exports have already fallen to their lowest in three years, while August exports of 6.683mn b/d were at their lowest since March 2011, according to the latest data published by the Joint Oil Data Initiative (JODI). Crucial Test Riyadh’s action may yet prove to be a crucial test fo...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Tunisia: Election Time In The Arab Spring’s Sole Survivor
...TUNISIA Tunisia: Election Time In The Arab Spring’s Sole Survivor Regime change in Tunisia set off a series of revolutions across the Middle East in 2011. The achievements of these protest movements have largely been reversed elsewhere, but parliamentary elections held in Tunisia over th...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Egypt Announces Ambitious Macroeconomic Policy Targets
...om political turmoil following the overthrow of the Husni Mubarak regime in early 2011 and is only now beginning to show signs of recovery. There is however a growing recognition in the west of Egypt’s pivotal role in the Middle East as a relative island of stability in what is currently a sea of un...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Lebanese Economy Resilient Despite External Shocks
...LEBANON Lebanese Economy Resilient Despite External Shocks Despite domestic and external political shocks, and depressed economic conditions resulting from the ongoing civil war in neighboring Syria since 2011, Lebanon’s economy is proving resilient, ratings agency Standard and Po...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Saudi Arabia Official Crude & Products Output, Consumption And Trade Figures, August 2014 (‘000 B/D)
...D14 vsYTD13 vsYTD12 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 Crude Production 9,597 -408 -59...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...13 2012 2011 WTI 82.09 82.96 87.62 93.13 95.95 97.25 103.00 98...
Volume: 57Issue: 43Published at Fri, 24 Oct 2014 -
US Shale A Threat To Mideast Condensate, Despite Oil Price Slide
...duce the firm’s exposure to political instability. Japan’s Gulf^ Condensate Imports (‘000 B/D) 2011 2012 2013 *2014 Qatar 15...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
UAE Sees Balanced 2015 Budget Despite Oil Price Fall
...tensifies. The budget is part of a three-year federal spending plan of Dh140bn ($38.1bn) for 2014-16. The three-year budget first introduced in 2011 intended to achieve sustained growth. Announcing the new budget, Shaikh Muhammad bin Rashid Al Maktum, UAE Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, said health, ed...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Saudi Speciality Petchems Transformation Focuses On Aromatics
...e key components of Aramco’s refining expansion and push into petrochemicals under its Accelerated Transformation Program launched in 2011 to turn Aramco into “a fully integrated global energy enterprise.” Aramco CEO Khalid al-Falih says the program will “not only significantly expand our existing ca...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Oman Turns To Wind To Cut Rural Generating Costs
...13 to 195MW in 2020. This projection excludes a proposed aluminum smelter under consideration at Duqm, which would consume 1GW. Oman Rural Electricity Supply* (Gwh) 2009 2010 2011 20...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Saudi Arabia Takes On Oil Market Bears
...counting for roughly one third of the group’s total output, Saudi Arabia has often acted without waiting for a formal agreement by all 12 members of OPEC. It ramped up production to make up for the loss of more than 1mn b/d of Libyan oil at the start of the revolution in the North African state in 2011, an...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Oil Revenues Key To Conflict In Libya
...bya specialist at the International Crisis Group. The enmity is rooted in the period after Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi was toppled in 2011, when the JCP stonewalled decision making in the GNC, so paralyzing a government already struggling to impose its authority on the country. The Misratans on the other ha...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Abu Dhabi Boosts Offshore Output As Umm Lulu Comes Online
...f in 2011 was reinjected into oil fields for enhanced oil recovery purposes, the official UAE Yearbook covering 2013 says. One of the largest increments will come from Upper Zakum, which is being further developed the Zakum Development Company (ZADCO) at an estimated cost of over $10bn. ADNOC ho...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Benchmark Crude Prices ($/B)
...13 2012 2011 WTI 82.70 87.62 91.44 93.13 95.95 97.25 103.00 98...
Volume: 57Issue: 42Published at Fri, 17 Oct 2014 -
Iran Faces $40Bn Petchems Project Backlog, Uncertain Gas Supplies
...e crackers and polymers plants are around 60% built and intended to be brought onstream by the end of 2015. All the projects could be completed in four years’ time, she says, if the “needed timely investment” is made. NPC’s 2011 Annual Report – only recently published – says NPC’s total pr...
Volume: 57Issue: 41Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2014 -
Iran Reveals Impact Of Bushehr Outages, UAE And Jordan Pass Nuclear Milestones
...ants. Iran’s nuclear program has been blighted with a series of delays and setbacks. The 1GW capacity Bushehr plant started up on 3 September 2011 after a long and controversial stop-start development program. Plant manager Hossein Darakshande announced on 8 October that the plant had delivered 8.7TWh of...
Volume: 57Issue: 41Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2014 -
MOL Confident Of Future In Kurdistan
...erations in Syria by Croatian INA, 49% owned by MOL, remain halted. INA pulled out of Syria along with other foreign operators after the European Union imposed sanctions against Damascus in the early days of the rebellion against the Bashar al-Asad regime in 2011. Mr Dodds says he is not sure what co...
Volume: 57Issue: 41Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2014 -
Egypt Bags More Aid Amid Gaping Budget Deficit
...tual vs ‘12-13 vs budget 11mths** (to May14) Budget 2012-13 2011-12 Revenue 54...
Volume: 57Issue: 41Published at Fri, 10 Oct 2014